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== Non-CyЯillic examples ==
== Non-CyЯillic examples ==
=== [[Comics]] ===
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* In ''[[The Books of Magic]]'', Ancient Greeks talk like this "IN THΣ LДNDS ΘF ΘLIVΣ ДND LДURΣL, WHΣRΣ THΣ GΘDS WДLK". [[David Langford]] [http://www.ansible.co.uk/cc/cc41.html was scathing] about this, and especially [[Roger Zelazny]]'s admiration for it in the introduction:
* In ''[[The Books of Magic]]'', Ancient Greeks talk like this "IN THΣ LДNDS ΘF ΘLIVΣ ДND LДURΣL, WHΣRΣ THΣ GΘDS WДLK". [[David Langford]] [http://www.ansible.co.uk/cc/cc41.html was scathing] about this, and especially [[Roger Zelazny]]'s admiration for it in the introduction:
{{quote|Maybe it slips by an awful lot of the audience, but how can a savvy chap like Zelazny read this nonsense as other than, roughly, 'In ths ldnds thf thlivs dnd ldursl, whsrs ths gthds wdlk'?}}
{{quote|Maybe it slips by an awful lot of the audience, but how can a savvy chap like Zelazny read this nonsense as other than, roughly, 'In ths ldnds thf thlivs dnd ldursl, whsrs ths gthds wdlk'?}}